Guilty Pleas From Thousand Oaks Transient Who Set Fire To Tent With Two Men Inside
Sunday July 07, 2024
A Thousand Oaks transient has pleaded guilty in connection with an incident more than two years ago in which he threw flammable liquid on a tent with two other transients inside and then set it on fire.
Now 36-years-old, Robert Burn had been charged with two counts of attempted murder for the attack that injured the two men inside the tent.
But prosecutors allowed him to instead plead guilty to the lesser charge of Arson of an Inhabited Structure or Property and Assault with Force Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury.
The attack happened on the late afternoon of November 16, 2021 at a homeless encampment in a ravine near the Oaks Mall in Thousand Oaks.
Burn was located and arrested the next day but then released and re-arrested a few days later.
He remains in the Ventura County Jail with bail set at $100,000 and is due in court on August 21st to be sentenced.
